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...Aryans. - Who are the Aryans? Origin and meaning of the name. The Comparative Method. Survey of Aryan languages. Huxley's theory of the race-elements in Europe...
...Aryan Myths and Folk-Lore. - Mediaeval books of folk-lore. The Grimms and their followers. The Travelling Musicians. The ass in Vedic mythology. Community of Aryan folk-lore. The magician Punchkin. Russian story of Koshchei the Deathless. Mythologic origin of folk-lore...
...origin of the custom of publishing and peddling intermittent editions of standard works is ancient and honorable. Into what degenerate hands has fallen this once noble occupation...
...complete occupation of most of our buildings by tenants who are active in suppressing the first outbreak of flame is a strong protection against serious injury. That this fire, breaking out as it did in the middle of the day, was so destructive, can only be attributed to its origin in a room unused by day, and to the misfortune attending the first well-meant efforts of the fire department...
Thus the author of "Indifference again," as it seems to me, was wrong in co-ordinating laziness and superficial ideas as causes of indifference; since indifference is laziness, though superficial ideas may quite probably be the causes of laziness. But the authors who have sought the origin of our indifference in the character of the Nation have suffered worse confusion of thought. For it is obvious that they have confounded the fact of our receiving pessimistic theories with the fact of subscribing to them in blind faith. In so far as the authority of the Nation closes...